Thailand Sees Widespread Facebook Outage

Army Denies Blocking the Social Network

Facebook was inaccessible to most users in Thailand on Wednesday, prompting speculation that it had been blocked by the country's army, which staged a coup last week and has warned critics about expressing dissent on social networks.

Hugely popular in Thailand, Facebook couldn't be loaded in most users' Web browsers or on mobile devices beginning Wednesday afternoon, around 3:30 p.m. local time. Around 90 minutes later, it was...